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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Indie Book Buzz: Queen's Ferry Press

We are knee deep in Indie Book Buzz here at TNBBC. Over the next few weeks, we will be inviting members of the small press publishing houses to share which of their upcoming releases they are most excited about!

Where
the Body Ends is a
debut collection of eleven stories, published in places like Timber Creek Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and Louisiana Literature. The characters are
marginalized, through either physical or emotional deficiency, yet remain reachable
to the reader. These people try to push through the fog that has settled over
them and in so doing find others doing the same: their struggles, their
successes, their symptoms and side effects all center on the ways they
manage—with earnestness and humor—under the heaviness of their own lives.

Why
You Should Read It:

John Dufresne (No Regrets, Coyote) says of this author:
“Evidently, René LeBlanc was somebody’s big
secret until now, and I don’t know how they kept her from us.” With
this collection, the secret will be out. Above all, these are stories that
feature gorgeous writing; the book is largely based in Texas and its prose
reinforces the sheer expansiveness of the region as simultaneously sparse and
sprawling. Despite writing difficult lives, LeBlanc subverts overwrought
telling or overly dramatized scenes and cuts to the core of characters in a way
that makes it difficult to stop thinking of them and their burdened days.

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Erin McKnight is the publisher of Queen’s Ferry Press, an
independent small press publishing collections of literary fiction. Authors
include Michael Nye, Scott Garson, and the TIL award-winning (Shadows of Men) Kevin Grauke;
forthcoming authors include Phong Nguyen, Aaron Burch, and Victoria Kelly.
Erin’s own writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and W.W. Norton’s The Best Creative Nonfiction, and her
reviews of poetry and fiction titles can be found in multiple venues.

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I have been buried beneath small press and self-published review copies since 2009. My passion for supporting the small press and self publishing communities has driven me out into the world wide web to demonstrate alternative ways to spread the word about amazing publishers, authors, and novels you might never had heard of. Feeding your reading addiction, one book at a time.